Bangladesh News

Crime, extortion still rule Karwan Bazar

Bangladesh News — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:26:30 +0000

Karwan Bazar, the largest wholesale kitchen market in the capital, remains a safe haven for extortionists, who operate with impunity thanks to backing from a section of law enforcers. After the triple-murder a week ago, police vigilance there has increased, yet extortion is still rampant. The Daily Star correspondents have talked to traders in Karwan Bazar several [...]

PDB in total disarray

Bangladesh News — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:25:51 +0000

Drive starts to free encroached Khulna canals

Bangladesh News — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:24:56 +0000

Khulna City Corporation launched a drive yesterday to recover canals from encroachers and demolish illegal structures that are hampering storm-water drainage through the canals. Sources said around 20 shops, two houses, a school and a madrasa were torn down during day-1 of the drive. Mayor Talukder Abdul Khaleque inaugurated the eviction drive levelling an embankment illegally constructed [...]

Govt braces for daunting task

Bangladesh News — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:23:46 +0000

The government faces a mammoth task of completing issuing of birth certificates to 44.3 percent of the total population in less than a year. It took three years to register 55.7 percent citizens after the Birth and Death Registration Act was enforced in 2006. It will be really tough to complete the birth registration process by [...]

Flashflood grips low-lying areas

Bangladesh News — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:23:07 +0000

Heavy downpour triggered flash flood in low-lying areas of several districts including Netrakona, Sunamganj, Sylhet and Feni yesterday leaving thousands of people marooned. Two rivers — Surma in Sunamganj and Muhuri in Parshuram are flowing 36 cm and 45 cm above the danger mark respectively. Road communications between Dhaka and other districts are now under threat [...]

Missions to be asked to find out ‘godfathers’

Bangladesh News — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:22:24 +0000

The government will ask Bangladesh missions abroad to send reports on ‘godfathers’ who control the recruitment process of workers in different countries, Foreign Minister Dipu Moni said yesterday. “The cost for migration of workers is very high. There are middlemen on both the sides. We are examining how to reduce migration cost,” she said. The foreign minister [...]

Protesters threaten to resign en masse

Bangladesh News — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:21:40 +0000

Aggrieved leaders and workers of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) yesterday continued to stage demonstrations demanding cancellation of the new central committee that includes several “non-students” and “a relative of a suspected militant”. Many JCD leaders and activists have threatened to resign en masse unless the new committee is dissolved within a week. Meanwhile, newly appointed leaders [...]

New technology to save urea, increase yield

Bangladesh News — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:20:30 +0000

Bangladesh can become self-sufficient in urea fertiliser and reduce the production cost of rice drastically by using urea deep placement (UDP) technology, agriculturists said. The UDP technology requires around 50 percent less urea but it can increase the yield by 25 percent more, they noted. The annual demand for urea is now around 28 lakh metric tons [...]

Law on HR Commission to protect NRBs’ rights

Bangladesh News — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:19:24 +0000

The proposed law on National Human Rights Commission is set to be passed in the ongoing parliament session with provisions for non-resident and resident Bangladeshis to seek justice, said Suranjit Sengupta, chairman of parliamentary standing committee on law and parliamentary affairs yesterday. “We hope that the law will be passed in the ongoing session of the [...]

Captured cadres taken to Rajshahi for remand

Bangladesh News — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:18:46 +0000

Law enforcers yesterday transferred three organisers of “Islam and Muslim”, an offshoot of Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), to Rajshahi from Dhaka and produced them before a court seeking a seven-day remand for each. The Chief Judicial Magistrate’s Court of Rajshahi sent the three to jail and set tomorrow for holding hearing on the remand prayers after [...]